Internal Market Information System launched in Romania

The Internal Market Information System (IMI) was launched on June 23 in Romania, at the Parliament Palace, in the presence of the European Commission representative Nicholas Leapman.

IMI is an information system designed to facilitate mutual assistance and information exchange between member states. It provides a tool for secure and fast data exchange among European authorities, allowing them to work together effectively despite barriers due to different languages and administrative procedures and structures.

"We want to ease the access of the public administration and local authorities to exchanging information with officials from other countries," Leapman said.

The system was launched in the EU four months ago for four professions and the second stage will cover 100 professions and 3,000 authorities involved.

Attending the launch, head of the Department for European Affairs Adrian Ciocanea said that this "is one of the most important programs for liberalization of the internal market."

IMI consists in a database of the relevant authorities of the EU states, involved in the implementation, on their territory, of the legislation regarding the internal market.

There will be a national IMI coordinator for each member state. The IMI coordinator in Romania will be the Minister of Education, Research and Youth and the Health Ministry.

The European Commission hosts and administrates the IMI system at its data center in Luxembourg.